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2 Corinthians 11:29

James Moffatt - New Testament

Who is weak, and I do not feel his weakness? Whose faith is hurt, and I am not aglow with indignation?

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to the weak I have become as weak myself, to win over the weak. To all men I have become all things, to save some by all and every means.

Therefore if food is any hindrance to my brother's welfare, sooner than injure him I will never eat flesh as long as I live, never!

Still I have this against you: you are tolerating that Jezebel of a woman who styles herself a prophetess and seduces my servants by teaching them to give way to sexual vice and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols.

I know your doings, your hard work and your patient endurance; I know that you cannot bear wicked men, and that you have tested those who style themselves apostles (no apostles they!) and detected them to be liars;

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

But I saw they were swerving from the true line of the gospel; so I said to Cephas in presence of them all, "If you live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, though you are a Jew yourself, why do you oblige the Gentiles to become Jews?" —

I am glad to be weak if you are strong; mend your ways, that is all I ask.

Foolish man! What you sow never comes to life unless it dies.

Thus if one member suffers, all the members share its suffering; if one member is honoured, all the members share its honour.

What! have you no houses to eat and drink in? Do you think you can show disrespect to the church of God and put the poor to shame? What can I say to you? Commend you? Not for this.

We who are strong ought to bear the burdens that the weak make for themselves and us. We are not to please ourselves.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.

(His disciples recalled the scripture saying, I am consumed with zeal for thy house.)

And blessed is he who is repelled by nothing in me!"

But see that the exercise of your right does not prove any stumbling-block to the weak.




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